[General] [Proposal] Getting Involved / HelpUs

[Ted Leung]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Hi Ted, What do you think about melding Get Involved and Community?

The content of these two pages is pretty different.  I think putting  
all that information on a single page is more confusing than helpful.

Ted

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> On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
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>> One of the things that we need to do around Preview is to make it  
>> easier for people to figure out how they can get involved.  At the  
>> moment, we have a Get Involved link on each of  
>> chandler.osafoundation.org <http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ 
>> getinvolved.php> and cosmo.osafoundation.org <http:// 
>> cosmo.osafoundation.org/getinvolved.php>.   The Chandler page  
>> points to a wiki HelpUs page <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ 
>> HelpUs>, while the Cosmo page contains a link to a hopelessly out  
>> of data Bugzilla query.
>>
>> I'd propose the following:
>>
>> * We use a link called "Getting Involved" as opposed to "For  
>> Developers", since we want to people besides developers get involved
>> * We  we try and unify as many of the items from the current Get  
>> Involved pages into a single page that could be linked from the  
>> main "Get Involved" link.
>> * We have project specific sub sections or different pages, one  
>> for the desktop and another for the server
>> * In keeping with Katie's message <http://lists.osafoundation.org/ 
>> pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-July/008507.html> about reducing the  
>> usage wiki pages for projects, i propose that we convert all  
>> projects currently listed on the HelpUs page to bugzilla bugs,  
>> with a HelpUs keyword.    We can use the Bugzilla Query TWiki  
>> plugin to get an in line display of the current project list.    
>> This will then be our sole method of managing projects that would  
>> be good entry points for people new to one of the projects.
>>
>> If that proposal is acceptable, someone from each of the desktop  
>> and server teams needs to look at the existing set of projects and  
>> determine what is still valid, and add any other projects which  
>> are not captured as bugs.    I will do this for the server team,  
>> but I need some from the desktop team to look at the desktop side.
>>
>> Ted
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